印尼停止向美国出口丁香烟

    6月28日星期一，印尼当地的媒体的报道说，在美国食品与药品管理局对丁香卷烟实施了禁令之后，印度尼西亚已经停止向美国出口丁香烟。

    印度尼西亚海关署的代表Frans Rupang说：“自美国去年9月对丁香卷烟实施禁令以来，在对美国的丁香卷烟出口出现急剧下降之后，这种卷烟的对美出口从今年年中开始已经完全没有了。”

    据Frans Rupang说，美国市场占印度尼西亚丁香卷烟产品出口的一半以上，其余的出口目的地为阿拉伯国家。

    Frans Rupang补充说，丁香烟卷烟的出口每年给印度尼西亚带来2.4亿美元的收入。

    Detik.com引用Frans Rupang的话报道说：“我们担心，美国对丁香烟实施禁令将会被其他一直进口这种产品的国家所效仿。如果那样的话，我们可能会损失2.4亿美元的年收入。”

    印度尼西亚已经向世界贸易组织提交了针对这项禁令的投诉，称这样的禁令是对印尼产品的歧视行为。

    早些时候的报道说，丁香卷烟因其使非吸烟者的健康受到威胁的独特烟草味道而被禁止在美国出售。

    Indonesia stops cigarette export to U.S.

    Xinhua

    2010-06-28

    Indonesia has stopped the export of its clove cigarette to the United States following the ban imposed by U.S. agency on such a cigarette, local media reported here on Monday.

    "There was totally no clove cigarette export to U.S. as of mid this year after sharp drop of clove cigarette export to U.S. since the ban was imposed in September last year," Frans Rupang, a deputy at Indonesia's customs office said.

    According to Frans, the U.S. market takes more than half of Indonesia's clove cigarette products with the remaining exports were destined to Arab countries.

    The export of clove cigarette contributes 240 million U.S. dollars per year to Indonesia, Frans added.

    "We fear that the U.S. ban on clove cigarette will be followed by other countries that have been importing that product. If that so, we could loose 240 million U.S. dollars worth of annual income, " Frans was quoted as saying by the detik.com.

    Indonesia has filed in a complaint against the ban to the World Trade Organization (WTO), arguing that such a ban was a discriminative act to Indonesian products.

    The clove cigarette was banned to be sold in U.S. for its particular smoke odor that risks non-smokers' health, earlier reports said.